Color Mixing for Artists: Minimum Colors for Maximum Effect, Using Watercolors, Acrylics, and Oils

by Nick Harrison, John Lidzey, Jill Mirza, et al.

Book Overview

This reference book for art students, teachers, and professionals presents examples of finished paintings, as well as color charts that demonstrate color mixing as it applies to watercolors, acrylics,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764154478
• ISBN13: 9780764154478
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Great help

Helpful

So useful!

This is a really useful book on mixing color. It has a section for acrylics, oil and watercolor. Only the oil section is of interest to me but those few pages are packed with enough on mixing 2 colors to get a 3rd that it's fine.

Great resource for beginner painting

I've purchased four different books to help with color mixing oil paints and this is my favorite. It gives multiple recipes to achieve the colors and tones needed for painting, is easy to read and understand, and also shows examples of colors in still lifes and actual paintings. I keep this close by for reference as I'm painting. It's a very useful book.

A tool for any artist

This is the best color mixing book I have come across. I have purchased several and this one is far superior. The inromation is clear and the examples are very helpful.

Easy

Great book. Easy to understand. Will say you a lot of time and paint. Definitely worth it.

Simple and Easy

Perhaps the bad review was because this book is simple, easy and uncomplicated, but that's why I like it. I have many books on color theory, color mixing, and color swatches, however I keep coming back to this little book with it's simple explanations for getting various color combinations. I don't have to read an encyclopedia on primary, secondary, tertiary colors or understand everything there is know about color theory to get what I want, I like the still life photos showing various color combinations described on the accompanying pages. I like the color names and the various colors I get if I mix color A and color B, simple and easy. The color may not be a perfect match but it's always close and makes it easy for me to adjust to achieve what I want. Perhaps it isn't a text for a college course on color theory, charts and wheels but when I'm looking for a particular color or family of colors, I always find it here. This book has saved me lots of time and paint. Hope I never lose my copy but I'd buy it again if I was so unfortunate to do so.